Hoop Dreams

the most scathing condemnation of capital that i've seen. in narrative cinema, critiques of capital usually take the form of sensationalizing the struggle of oppression or are works of winking satire (atleast that i've watched - admittedly i have seen a relatively limited number of those movies). but this film really forces you to look down the barrel of the repression that capitalism fosters without either thinly veiled irony or mechanical feel-good/despairing moments that narrative critiques of capital (in all their glory) seem to always have. it also manages to show the joy and perseverance of these repressed communities in spite of the system that is so desperately trying to crush them. beautiful and devastating. truly one of them ones